Albert Einstein Professor News Today

Presented by the Lyceum Society To register for this event, please contact customerservice@nyas.org Welcome and Introductions: 11:30 am to 11:45 am Initial Presentation: 11:45 am to 12:45 pm Speaker: Fred Cadieu Topic: Start of our Solar System: Earth Biased Illusions Everybody has some innate feelings about the start of Earth. Today we want to maybe expand those

Princeton has assembled a stunning collection of high-tech microscopes. Our research in the realm of the minuscule is making a giant impact.

Nobel prizewinner Jim Peebles, who helped create our model of how the universe evolved, discusses dark matter, the value of iconoclastic ideas and the astronomical anomalies to keep your eye on

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $52.66 million grant to fund a major infrastructure upgrade to the Simons Observatory in the Atacama Desert of Chile. Upgrades are expected to take about five years; the resulting facility will be known as the Advanced Simons Observatory (ASO).

Elisabeth Rülke’s senior thesis for Princeton takes a step forward in quantum sensing using flaws the size of a single atom.

The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2022 is awarded in equal shares to mathematicians Noga Alon of Princeton University and Ehud Hrushovski of Oxford, "for their remarkable contributions to discrete mathematics and model theory with interaction notably with algebraic geometry, topology and computer sciences." Awarded by the Hong Kong-based Shaw Foundation, the Shaw Prize honors recent breakthroughs by researchers in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, and life science and med...

Princeton's Shany Danieli discovered in 2018 that some galaxies are missing their dark matter. Now she and a team of modelers have now determined that this does not, in fact, undermine the standard model of galaxy formation.